Vitafluid, a health drink, is available at all supermarkets. after research, the marketing team of the branddiscovered that 90 percent of its customers were people between the ages of 30 and 40.only 10 percent of teenagers liked the drink; the rest disliked it because of its bitter flavor. to attract more teenagers, the brand made its packaging more appealing and modified the formula to make it sweeter. in this scenario, the teenage group can be referred to as a

Explain whether each of the following events increases or decreases the money supply. a. the fed buys bonds in open-market operations. b. the fed reduces the reserve requirement. c. the fed increases the interest rate it pays on reserves. d. citibank repays a loan it had previously taken from the fed. e. after a rash of pickpocketing, people decide to hold less currency. f. fearful of bank runs, bankers decide to hold more excess reserves. g. the fomc increases its target for the federal funds rate.

Mno corporation uses a job-order costing system with a predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. the company based its predetermined overhead rate for the current year on the following data: total estimated direct labor-hours 50,000 total estimated fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 285,000 estimated variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour $ 3.80 recently, job p123 was completed with the following characteristics: total actual direct labor-hours 20 direct materials $ 710 direct labor cost $ 500 the amount of overhead applied to job p123 is closest to:

Heyak believed that the economy could be hard to measure because